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Old 06-Sep-05, 06:05 PM   #1
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Wrist Weights


I did a search in the forums and didn't actually find anyone who has used these. Would wearing wrist weights around your home help build your shoulders? Reaching for things, doing yard work, etc.. I have heard ankle weights can be bad for the knees but what about wrist weights.

I do lift weights and hit my shoulders but I am thinking that if you always have a weight on a particular part of your body, it will adapt to the situation, in this case your shoulders would have to compensate for the weight always on it and get stronger and increase in size.

What do yall think?
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Old 06-Sep-05, 06:51 PM   #2
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Sure, maybe. I've thought of walking around all day with a backpack with a couple 35 lbs plates in it, but my wife thinks I'm crazy.
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Old 06-Sep-05, 08:21 PM   #3
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Sounds easy, doesn't it? Flawed logic. Wrist weights will not build shoulders etc. They are too light to provoke any type of adaptation (other than some local functional endurance)
There is NO easy way - lift heavy and hard.

Wearing weighted belts, bands, straps etc as part of your daily routine would have more perils than you think, in that it would alter your normal movement patterns as you adjust and adapt factors such as your walking gait, static balance etc because of the increase in weight, putting greater stresses and strains on muscles and joints at weak biomechanical points, that could lead to injury.
During weight training sessions although the lifts are not "normal" as such, you are in a safe position to lift - focused maximal intensity in a secure,supported, balanced body position.
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Old 06-Sep-05, 10:56 PM   #4
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Thanks for the input.... I wasn't really going so far as to put a backpack on with plates in it. I guess I was thinking that as I went through the day I would reach for stuff and move my arms needing to use my shoulders. I found some wrist weights that can hold about 20 lb per arm. But if you think about it, unless you are putting dishes away in a cabinet, you really dont raise your hands above your head all that much. I could just do an extra 10 or 20 reps when I am lifting in the mornings to get the extra lifting in. Dumb question..my appologies. Thanks for the help though

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